Mattress.



No. 771.867. PATENTED OCT. 11, 1904. a. A. FISHER:

MATTRESS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 29, 1902.

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PATENTED OCT. 11, 1904. v

G. A. FISHER.

MATTRESS.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.29, 1902.

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I ished mattress.

UNIT D STATES Patented October 11, 1904.

CHARLES A. FISHER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MATTRESS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 771,867, dated October11, 1904.

Application filed December 29, 1902- Serifll 1 (N0 odel) To an whom, itmay concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. FIsHER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Mattresses, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates more especially to mattresses of cotton-batting andlike material, although-adapted to mattresses filled with otherresilient fibrous material.

The object of my invention is to simplify and cheapen the manufacture ofsuch mattresses and to produce a more symmetrical and smooth-surfacedmattress.

These and other objects as may hereinafter appear are accomplished bythe construction shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1is a side elevation of 'a block of cotton-batting or like materialsuitable to fill a mattress. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of the blockoverlaid with a sheet of fabric such as is shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is arepresentation of the fabric. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the blockhaving a sheet of fabric arranged upon the upper and lower surfacesthereof and having a sheet of cotton-batting or like material arrangedover each of the sheets of fabric. Fig. 5 is an end view of Fig; 4:.Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a block partly sewed. Figs. 7 and 8 showdetails of the sewing, and Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a completedmattress having one corner thereof broken away.

Like letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figuresof the drawings.

Taking for illustration the use of cottonbatting, with which are madethe so-called elastic-felt mattresses, a block or body of cotton-battingsufiicient to properly fill a mattress will when not confined, as shownin Fig. 2, be of much greater thickness than the fin- If now such asheet of batting is confined within a tick in the ordinary manner, thetick and filling being quilted together the result will be a mattresshaving a quilted surface and hollow edges.

With my improved mattress I first prepare the block of filling as aseparate entity complete in itself, and after the block has beenprepared by being confined in the manner shown by me to the desiredthickness, while at the same time retaining a symmetrical contour, it isinserted in the tick, to which it is secured by a line of stitchingadjacent to its edges, thereby producing a symmetrical mattress withsmooth surfaces and slightly-rounded edges which is at the same timeresilient and yet is so constructed as to resist all strains tending todisplace the filling laterally.

Having arranged a block A of cotton-batting of the desired shape andsize, I place on the top and bottom surfaces thereof a sheet of fabricB, preferably of a loose texture, such as burlap, which will serveeffectively to confine the batting, will readily admit of the passage ofneedles, and will at the same time give the filling-block a veryconsiderable tensile strength. Over each of these layers of fabric Ispread a thin layer of cotton-batting C, which serves to hold the loopsof the thread I) and keep them from pulling through the fabric. By meansof threads D, which are sewed through the upper and lower thin layers ofbatting, the intermediate layers of fabric, and the main body offilling, I compress the block to the required thickness, or I compressit in any suitable manner and secure it at the proper thickness by meansof such threads, which can be run through without any regard tosymmetry, as they are concealed when the mattress is filled, and sorequire no especial care or skill in the forming of the filling-blockfWhen this is done, as shown at the right end of Fig. 6, I have produceda symmetrical, resilient, and durable block with substantially smoothupper and lower surfaces which needs only to be slid into asmoothly-fitting tick E, and while it need not necessarily be secured tothe tick a more'satisfactory and pleasing effect is attained by securingit to the tick, preferably by running aseam diagonallythrough the top ofthe tick, the corner or edge of the filling, and out again at the sidesof the-tick, as shown in Fig. 9.

I claim 1. A block of filling for mattresses and the like, comprising ablock of resilient material having substantially the length and breadthof the completed mattress, a sheet of fabric of the same length andbreadth, covering the upper and lower faces of said block of material, acomparatively thin sheet of resilient tufting material, of the samelength and breadth, covering said sheets of fabric, and stitchesconfining all of said layers to the required thickness.

2. A mattress comprisinga block of resilient material, a sheet offabric, of substantially the same length and breadth as said block,covering the upper and lower faces of said block, a comparatively thinsheet of resilient material covering said sheets of fabric, said blockand said sheets of fabric and sheets of resilient material being sewedtogether and confined to the required thickness by stitches, said block,so prepared, being then inserted in a ticl; and secured thereto bymarginal stitching extending through said tick and through said preparedblock.

CHARLES A. FISHER. WVitnesses:

F. H. DRURY, E. SHASBERGER.

